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New Orleans, La, Us

New York, Us

• Business leader responsible for developing and driving operational strategy • Deliver operational excellence as Co-Founder of a creative technology and interactive digital production agency startup• Execute strategic planning, process development and refinement, management of program and project teams, requirements management, product feature prioritization, client management, quality assurance, and customer support• Key contributor to developing innovative products: identifying and recommending tech-forward ways to meet client KPIs in the digital space; liaising between technical teams and non-technical stakeholders• Created and managed all business infrastructure including financial planning, budget development, bookkeeping, accounts payable and accounts receivable• Direct Human Resources management, handled contract negotiation, validation and management• Oversee selection and implementation of reporting tools• Spearhead lead generation efforts

• Responsible for assessing and advising an independent global creative agency with 8-figure annual revenue • Provided restructuring recommendations for the digital production management and technology teams • Consolidated historically siloed teams into the corporate digital vertical to enable workflow optimization and better align to industry standards • Realigned roles and retained all staff while establishing a clear path forward in support of staff career growth.

New York, Ny, Us

• Responsible for driving innovation and in-flight product development providing oversight to architecture, IT infrastructure, Quality Assurance, database migration, and customer support• Managed multiple teams across web development, multimedia development, and Quality Assurance• Oversaw maintenance, uptime, and expansion of private cloud infrastructure for hosted clients• Streamlined infrastructure to ensure maintenance efficiencies and reduce DevOps expenditures• Evolved group processes to include technology in campaign pre-sale and ideation, resulting in 80% reduction of near-launch risks and inefficiencies, and increase in tech-forward offerings.• Optimized relationship with key stakeholders of other Condé Nast teams/brands, resulting in a substantial decrease in dependency on external vendors. • Established Quality Assurance best practices, implemented processes, hired and trained a 3-person team, leading to an impactful improvement in campaign timeliness and overall success• Balanced conflicting needs of diverse teams: creative, sales/marketing, client, and technology• Represented technology in client and executive meetings.

New York, Ny, Us

• Developed best practices and policies to ensure team services leveraged in the most efficient manner • Organized the team, optimized workflows and redefined tools and technology to be more prominent in the group hierarchy.

• Technical lead responsible for mobile and tablet developer team • Senior developer of interactive advertising campaigns focusing on mobile, tablet, web and Digital Editions• Managed a growing team of 4 on-site and off-site developers. • Contributed to screening, evaluating, hiring and onboarding processes• Lead Developer for award-winning interactive ads and editorial features for Conde Nast's tablet applications • Worked directly with publishers, executives, editors, designers and product managers to ideate first-to-market interactive features• Represented the development team on task forces to establish best practices for tablet executions• Developed training materials and delivered coaching/mentorship to team members.

New York, Ny, Us

• Developed interactive web apps with a focus on front end technologies• Developed custom Content Management Systems and databases for client projects using PHP and MySQL • Performed daily content updates and contributed to Wiki documentation.

• Sole front-end developer for all marketing and creative services executions for the brand• Hand-coded emails, sweepstakes, sites and editorial features• Thrived in the high volume, fast-paced project-oriented environment

Performed and taught improvisation skills to corporate executives

Acted (stage, film & TV)Featured performer in a weekly short-form improv show